Testing out the 720p Video Recording on the BlackBerry Bold 9900!

WooHoo! With my purchase yesterday of a BlackBerry Bold 9900, I finally have video recording capabilities on a BlackBerry Smartphone that I'm actually going to want to take advantage of on a regular basis. Above you'll find the first video I recorded on my new Bold, which records in 720p HD at 1280x720 resolution. Once recorded, I uploaded the video straight to our youtube.com/crackberrydotcom account directly from the device (no editing).

As you'll see, RIM did good here. The video quality is really clear in my opinion as is the sound quality (if anything the sound pickup was better than I expected - I was talking pretty darn loud as I figured I'd have to, but when talking normally the sound came through smooth). Like any mobile phone, if you're shaky the video will be shaky, and you get a good sense of how the recording works both ways in this video. I was a little shaky at the start, then things got steadier when I handed the camera of - but NOTE... I did not have Image Stabalization turned on for this video, so turning it on should further smooth things out (we'll do some more followup vids soon).

As for the contents of the video... this one came a bit out of nowhere. CrackBerry member deRusset tracked me down this evening to take a photo of me for the CrackBerry GooseChase, so we grabbed some dinner and talked about our newly acquired Bold 9900's (CrackBerry Review currently a work in progress...stay tuned!). The other person who joined in for dinner is Remik Szul. who is a founding member of the original Crack Team and proud owner of user id #2 on CrackBerry. Both deRusset and I agree we're skinnier in real life than the video shows, but other than that, it's looking the video camera on these new BlackBerry 7 Smartphones are going to get a lot of use!

DeRusset always reminded me of Steve Carell for some reason. Now, after this video, he reminds me of Colin Quinn playing Robert De Niro on the Joe Pesci show. lol. Anyhoo, the video was superb even with the shakes. Cannot wait for the full twenty eight page review now.

Even better than the quality of the video I'm kind of impressed with the quality of the audio even if it was windy and there were a couple of cars passing by.

Something curious i noticed, at 1:07 both the guy in the blue shirt and one of the guys driving the motorcycles started simultaneously to unclip something (blue shirt the BB9900 NFC battery door and the biker his helmet) and both managed to release what they were opening at the exact same moment 1:08 almost 1:09. Is not important but it caught my eye :P

RIMpire please keep striking like this and we will conquer the universe soon!

Ahead of the game if the sound quality is better than my 9700! On my 9700 the video is ok but the sound is VERY low so I never use my phone to record any video. It will be nice to have that option when I get the 9900 especially now that I see the sound isn't low and vid. qaulity is as nice as it is. I may have to say goodbye to my Flip cam.

The sound were superb as you can hear all the little details of the motorcycles to the footsteps when the guy walked around his back. I am totally sold and can't wait for it to land on Tmobile...I am on verizon but i want the UMA and wonder is it supported on the 9900.

Wow, Kevin is in his full glory. I'm actually sharing his sentiment. Can't wait 'till these new BBs hit the US. I will be retiring my Storm 2 for either a Bold or Torch 2. Maybe even a Playbook to make the cycle complete.

Even traditional cameras suffer from high noise (grain) levels in less than ideal lighting. Considering that mid to higher end cameras $1500+ still have grain issues at high ISO, I wouldn't get my hopes up in expecting a phone based camera to address that. Just saying :o)

RIM should add the functuanilty of BBM to their WHOLE phone experience. I'm talking being able to share through BBM while on the browser, while taking pictures, everything should be BBM not just the new BBM enabled apps. THIS IS INNOVATION, THIS IS WHAT BB NEEDS. ..ps.. fck iphones. HAHA!